Today in luxury marketing:
LVMH: The empire of desire
Bernard Arnault, chairman, chief executive and controlling shareholder of Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton, has transformed a small, nearly defunct clothing manufacturer into a conglomerate that controls more than 60 luxury brands, but what will the world’s biggest luxury group will do next?
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